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Averell and Gerety criticize campaign tactics in the past--"It's a lot like Richard on Survivor, who went for alliances," Averell says...
...trailers for Unbreakable show Bruce Willis as David Dunn, the only survivor of a disastrous train wreck, and Samuel L. Jackson as Elijah Price, who seeks Dunn out to offer an explanation for his good fortune. No mention is made of comic books or their applications to real life, which appears to be Shyamalan's thesis and purpose for making this movie, and a metaphor debated frequently throughout the film. The twist ending of this film, a trick that Shyamalan became famous for in The Sixth Sense both supports and distorts the metaphor, and leaves the viewer unsure about whether...
Shyamalan wrote Unbreakable, the story of a man who survives a horrific train wreck and the stranger he encounters afterward, with two actors in mind: Willis (as the survivor) and Jackson (as the stranger). He was drawn to Willis for his Everyman quality and to Jackson for his incantatory elocution. Jackson returns the compliment. "[Shyamalan] knows how to use language," says the actor. "He gives characters an opportunity to express themselves. They tell you how they feel about certain things, how they feel about certain people, how they feel about themselves. But he also doesn't do it in such...
...other hand, when that train is wrecked, he is the only survivor--not a scratch on him. This interests Elijah Price (Samuel L. Jackson), who is Dunn's obvious opposite--an elegant, well-spoken dude who runs an upscale store dealing in original comic-book art. He is also afflicted by a congenital illness that causes his bones to shatter on the slightest contact--reason enough, one imagines, to account for his cranky manner...
...loving it, loving it, loving it, just the way you would think he would. But then the writers wrote one joke that cut to the quick a little too much and I couldn't resist saying it because I was so offended on some levels by "Survivor" and by his being and the being of all those people. It was to the effect of "Enjoy your 15 minutes because you're about to be swallowed by anonymity faster than my pink thing in a St. Bernard." And he was just stone-faced after that. He was laughing...